The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-12-17
IN THg VORLD or LABOR.
Specially Compiled for the Toilersby an Ad
vocato Man

from the Packcrton shops Tor live hundred
cars.
The oilcloth factory project at Oden-
weldertown, near Easton, has been aban-
doned.
When the smokestack of the Allen
town thread mill is completed it will be 227
feet high, the loftiest one in the United
States.
The tonnage of anthracite coal over the
Lehigh Valley Railroad from the Wyoming
region gives employment to all the equip
ment that the company can furnish.
ALI true exponenis of equality, justice
and right should endeavor to be in attend
ance at the X. of L. public meeting to be
held in Gabel's Hail, tonight friday.
of the fifty-two furnaces in the Lehlgh
Valley forty are in blast and twelve are w.
ing idle. Judging from this the iron trade
is in better condition than it has been dur
ing any previous year.
Inadvertently we fell into common
error last week in stating that the system
of half-time had been inaugurated in the
car shops at Packerton. 1t should have
been: The employees are working FIVE nine
hour days a week.
The aspect in the Lehigh region re-
mains as yet unchanged. The eighteenth
week of the strike has ended with miners
as firmly determined rs ever not TO give in
to the coal barons. With this condition of
affairs II is not unlikely that the strike will
continue all winter.
"A competent authority in the anthra-
cite trade has figured out that the output of
anthracite this year will be the largest in
any year in the history Of the trade. The
estimate is that the production will reach
nearly 1000, 900 tons and may exceed that
amount somewhat.
The basis of good government are hon
esty and intelligence, but not less is the es-
sential elements TO successful organization.
Conservative members of the Knights of
Labor fully understand and correctly guage
the Importance of intelligent enlighten-
ment on educational matters.
Employers are quietly suggesting
among themselves the possibility of re-
The influences which favor this possibility
are not very apparent, yet there is feeling
that organized labor may find it more diff
cult TO keep the high standard next year
than they have this year. Much incompet-
ent or inferior labor has been paid the
highest wages this year, and this evil has
been borne with as much grace as possible.
-Phila, Record.
There is a growing sentiment in the
Lehigh Valley that there will be premium
on Lehigh coal before long, because the
mines are getting more costly to operate
and many of them are giving out. Some
attention is already being given to a sub
stitute for anthracite. The Lehigh Valley
Road, whose locomotives are built for an
thracite coal almost entirely, began expert
menting to-day with soft coal on one of its
, through passenger engines, and proposes tC
introduce it in other engines.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Compan,
has been experimenting for some time will
:, an automatic whistle, the object of whicl
=, is to give the signal at grade crossing
y whether the engineer is on the alert or not
The device is a very simple one, consisting
Of bar or lever connecting with the wins
tie and extending down to within an inc
:. of the track. Az a point six hundred yard
from the crossing a projection is place
> which striking against the lever, starts TIL
whistle. Even if the engineer is asleep, ,th
warning is thus fully given.
y Between twenty and thirty railroad con
panies are introducing specie forms of hea
ing cars, and out of the variety of device
there will certainly be evolved one practit
able method. One system uses hot waite
- which is forced through pipes, another ht
air. One scheme is to use pressure, and al
other TO use an exhaust. The mechanic
difficulties in the way cannot be easily owe
!, come. 1t has been estimated that it vi
cost $40 year per car for heat 1t HI
been shown that fifty pounds of eXhau
steam, circulated by the suction syster
is as effectual as seventy-five pounds of Ii
~ steam circulated by the pressure system.
Ni
"A full and complete line of holid
he goods 2t Bayer's.
ng Monroe county people are much tro
nd bed by sneak thieves.
The steady rain during the past we
at has filed up the wells.
all 1t is predicted that we shall have 90
ng sleighing on Christmas.
The Choral Union at Tamaqua "
iDt shortly produce "Pinafore."
lty Christmas novelties in great 'varic
ng- at the Weissport JewelrY store.
-Don't fail 10 see the nrettv stock